I don’t particularly like Josh Groban’s music, but he does have a good sense of humour and while he was in the UK he endeared himself to audiences during his appearances on Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Hili and Cyrus have carefully made their plans for today:

Hili: Look, it’s so interesting over there.
Cyrus: Let’s take a nap and then go out again later.

In Polish:

Hili: Patrz jak tam ciekawie.
Cyrus: Prześpimy się i wyjdziemy znowu.

Hili’s friend and associate Leon also has something to share this morning.

Leon: I just wish it were spring!

Reader Jerry Piven, who teaches philosophy at the university level, sent this photo noting, “A student of mine drew this on the board before class today….as we were about to discuss section 125 of Nietzsche’s The Gay Science…” He added that the student’s name was Tyler Chang (given with permission).

.Finally, on to Twitter’s offerings du jour. As always, a little white arrow indicates a short video that you need to click on to view.

Psychedelic color combination on this Persian Carpet Flatworm.AND… This species has two penises, which it uses to fence, in an attempt to inject sperm into its opponent in order to fertilize it, while simultaneously avoiding being fertilized by said opponent.

I’m not sure about that one – regardless of the situation, unless it involved a violent crime or something like that, it seems inappropriate and borderline stalking for someone to call your work 2-3 times a day over a course of months. What the student did was wrong but I think his teacher seemed obsessively and inappropriately vindictive about it. Even debt collectors aren’t allowed to call your work. I’d bet dollars to donuts that there is a history of complaints against this person for inappropriate conduct – that is just not a normal way of reacting to a problem, at least in my opinion.

I have had students (a small but disporportionally active and noisy minority) who fabricate sob stories to excuse their absences. If you listen to them, today’s Europe has more casualties than any war zone. Recently, one claimed to have travelled home to care for his younger siblings and dying grandmother and so missed 11 out of 13 classes. He became verbally agressive: “If your mother is dying, will you report at work? If your children are dying?” Turned out that he had not left the city and had attended other classes, but our classes for his group happened to start at 8 AM and he hated getting up early…

THE GUY ON THE LEFT is supposedly SSgt. Louis A. Cappazzoli USMC, 1950. But he’s sporting a pencil moustache – I thought that style was gone by then. The unique & stunning Lauren Bacall is also in the link.

Interesting backstory. Pencil mustaches haven’t entirely gone out of style. John Waters sports one but I think that he’s about the only person who can get away with it. I say person so as not to offend anyone of the myriad genders we now identify with. Us women grow mustaches, too.

Also those capybaras. (I assume they’re not stuffed?) Any other animal would regard that as Chinese water torture. But Capybara: ‘What’s that thudding noise on my head? Maybe in a couple of minutes I’ll investigate. Nah, maybe not bother.’